Never knowingly undersolved
O…M…G… I suspect we have a candidate for ‘EV of the year’, if not the decade, in terms of grid construction and denouément at least…I think I need a SNOWBALL cocktail (or two), … Read more >>
Phi is occupying his usual Friday slot today. Personally speaking, I found this towards the easier end of the Phi spectrum and didn’t come unstuck with a handful of clues at the end, … Read more >>
Bradman makes a return this friday with a real toughie!!
I was expecting Paul today, since he seems to appear every week these days – and here he is on top form. There is some very witty and ingenious cluing here and … Read more >>
Too many issues in this puzzle for my liking…
Hob has given us a topical puzzle. For those who like the topic this puzzle will be enjoyable. For those who don’t like the topic this may have been a … Read more >>
Some truly excellent clues here – a good majority of them were on my “shortlist” for favourites, but I’ll single out 9ac, 11ac, 13ac and 6dn. Thanks, Picaroon.
Monday Prize Crossword / Oct 17, 2016
Some Dante puzzles are harder than others.
Let’s put it this way: it didn’t find this the easiest of crosswords.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 15, 2016
Good stuff from Aardvark as usual.
For some reason I found this unusually hard for a Dac, but the trademark qualities are still all there — just as good as ever. Perhaps it was because there seemed to be slightly fewer clues than normal involving anagrams. I don’t know.
Definitions underlined.
Pan is a regular in the Quiptic slot, but this is his (?) third appearance on the Cryptic sde. As on previous occasions, many (perhaps most) of the clues were of Quiptic standard, … Read more >>
Base – a new setter enters the fold. Preamble: Half of the 32 clues are normal. Two characters (to be written below the grid) together connect the 4 unclued perimeter entries and … Read more >>
We’re not giving anything away in the preamble when we state that there was an Olympian theme to the puzzle today. We may be missing something but the chosen Olympians seem to … Read more >>